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British scientist

ProfessorH. J. FleureFRS FRAI

Born	Herbert John Fleure 6 June 1877 Guernsey, Channel Islands
Died	1 July 1969
Nationality	British

Academic background
Alma mater	University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Academic work
Discipline	Zoology Geography
Institutions	University of Wales, Aberystwyth University of Manchester

Herbert John Fleure, FRS FRAI (6 June 1877 – 1 July 1969) was a British zoologist and geographer. He was secretary of the Geographical Association, editor of Geography, and president of the Cambrian Archaeological Association (1924–25), Royal Anthropological Institute (1945–47) and Geographical Association (1948–49).

Early years

Fleure was born in Guernsey on 6 June 1877, the son of Jean Fleure and Marie Le Rougetel. He often astonished friends and relatives in the mid-twentieth century by recounting how his father had been taken to visit the battlefield of Waterloo shortly after the battle (his father was born in 1803 and died in 1889). In 1897, he attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he founded the Student Representative Council. He graduated B.Sc. with first-class honours in late 1901 and was offered a University Fellowship. He went on to study at the Zoological Institute in Zurich, Switzerland.

Career

Returning to Wales, Fleure became head of the Department of Zoology at Aberystwyth in 1908. He assisted Professor Patrick Geddes with the mounting of the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition in Dublin in August 1914. From 1914 to 1920 he was president of Aberystwyth Old Students' Association. In 1917, he became Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the university, holding the post until 1930, when he became professor of geography at Victoria University, Manchester. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936. Following his retirement in 1944, he was president of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1945 to 1947.

He was a founder member of the Guernsey Society, which was established in 1943 to represent the interests of the Nazi-occupied island to the British Authorities. After the war, he was a regular contributor to The Quarterly Review, as well as to The Guernsey Farmhouse, a book published by the Society in 1964 celebrating the ancient family houses in the island. He also authored biographies of several scientists including Arthur Robert Hinks, Alfred Cort Haddon, James George Frazer and Emmanuel de Margerie

From 1927 through 1956 he was the co-author of the ten volumes of The Corridors of Time by Harold John Edward Peake.

Personal life

In 1910 Fleure married Hilda Mary Bishop in King's Lynn; they had one son and one daughter. Hilda (1885-1974) survived her husband by five years.

Honours

He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the American Geographical Society in 1930, and its Daly Medal in 1939. He received the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1946.

Works

Human Geography in Western Europe (1918)
The Peoples of Europe (1922)
Races of England and Wales (1923)
French Life and its Problems (1942)
A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951; revised edition 1969) (New Naturalist series)
The Guernsey Farmhouse (1964)

References

^ Garnett, A. (1970). "Herbert John Fleure. 1877-1969". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 16: 253–278. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1970.0009. S2CID 73303585.
"University intelligence". The Times. No. 36630. London. 5 December 1901. p. 11.
Macdonald, Murdo (2020), Patrick Geddes's Intellectual Origins, Edinburgh University Press, p. 117
Ellis, E. L. (1972). The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1872-1972. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 339. ISBN 978-0-7083-1930-7.
Jones, H. S.; Fleure, H. J. (1948). "Arthur Robert Hinks. 1873-1945". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 5 (16): 716. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1948.0008.
Fleure, H. J. (1941). "Alfred Cort Haddon. 1855-1940". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (9): 448–465. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0014. S2CID 191490709.
Fleure, H. J. (1941). "James George Frazer. 1854-1941". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (10): 896–914. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0041. S2CID 161719297.
Fleure, H. J. (1955). "Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie. 1862-1953". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 185–191. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0014.
General Registrar's Office Births Marriages and Deaths, Census of England and Wales 1911, 1939 Register
"American Geographical Society Honorary Fellowships" (PDF). amergeog.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2009.
"Royal Geographical Society: Awards for 1945-46". Nature. 157 (3994): 651. 1946. Bibcode:1946Natur.157S.651.. doi:10.1038/157651c0.

Bibliography

Bowen, E. G. "Professor H. J. Fleure on his 80th birthday: an appreciation of his contributions to Geography", in: Geog.; 42, 1957
Archives Network Wales - short biography Archived 5 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
Welsh Biography Online

Professional and academic associations
Preceded byJohn Henry Hutton	President of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1945–47	Succeeded byCyril Daryll Forde
Preceded byDouglas Rayner Hartree	President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1940–44	Succeeded byMichael Polanyi
Preceded bySir John Edward Lloyd	President of the Cambrian Archaeological Association 1924–25	Succeeded byHon. Charles Urien Rhys
Preceded byThomas Jones	President of the Aberystwyth Old Students' Association 1914–20	Succeeded byHenry Howard Humphreys

Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society

Presidents

18th Century	Peter Mainwaring James Massey Dr Thomas Percival (I)
19th Century	Dr Thomas Percival (II) George Walker Thomas Henry (I) Dr John Hull Thomas Henry (II) John Dalton Dr Edward Holme Eaton Hodgkinson John Moore Sir William Fairbairn, Bt James Prescott Joule (I) Edward William Binney (I) Dr Robert Angus Smith Dr Henry Edward Schunck (I) James Prescott Joule (II) Edward William Binney (II) James Prescott Joule (III) Dr Henry Edward Schunck (II) Edward William Binney (III) James Prescott Joule (IV) Edward William Binney (IV) Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe William Crawford Williamson Robert Dukinfield Darbishire Balfour Stewart Osborne Reynolds Dr Henry Edward Schunck (III) Prof. Sir Arthur Schuster Henry Wilde Dr Henry Edward Schunck (IV) James Cosmo Melvill Prof. Sir Horace Lamb
20th Century	Prof. Sir Horace Lamb Charles Bailey Prof. Sir William Boyd Dawkins Sir William Henry Bailey Prof. Harold Baily Dixon (I) Francis Jones Prof. Frederick Ernest Weiss Francis Nicholson Prof. Sydney John Hickson William Thomson Prof. Sir Grafton Elliot Smith Prof. Sir Henry Alexander Miers Thomas Alfred Coward Prof. Harold Baily Dixon (II) Rev. Aloysius Laurence Cortie Herbert Levinstein Prof. Sir William Lawrence Bragg Charles Edmond Stromeyer Prof. Bernard Mouat Jones John Allan Prof. Reginald William James Robert Henry Clayton Prof. Douglas Rayner Hartree Prof. Herbert John Fleure Prof. Michael Polanyi Prof. Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster Dr Eric John Francis James Horace Hayhurst (I) Prof. Sir Geoffrey Jefferson Sir Peter Percy F. R. Venables Dr F. C. Toy C. E. Young Prof. Henry Solomon Lipson (I) Leonard Cohen Margaret Pilkington Horace Hayhurst (II) Brian Rodgers Dr George N. Burkhardt Dr George James Kynch Dr Edward Noah Abrahart Anthony Edmund Rivers Goulty Prof. Henry Solomon Lipson (II) Harry M. Fairhurst David G. Wilson Dr Lionel J. R. Postle Prof. Sir Netar P. Mallick (I) Dr Brian S. H. Rarity Philip G. Livesey Prof. Donald Stephen Lowell Cardwell Dr Edward Fletcher Cass Prof. Alexander Donnachie Dianne Wilson
21st Century	Iain E. Gillespie Angus G. D. Yeaman Keith D. Buckley Vivienne Blackburn Mary, Lady Mallick David J. Higginson Prof. Kenneth M. Letherman Prof. Sir Netar P. Mallick (II) Dr Diana M. Leitch Dr Susan R. Hilton Ian Cameron

Awards

Honorary Membership
Dalton Medal

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